Worth adding what CISA's own acting director showed state officials when they finally got him on a call, since it tells you more than any budget line item. Democratic secretaries of state pressed Andersen on whether threat briefings and system testing would resume before November. He gave noncommittal answers, blamed government shutdowns, and told them some services might not come back until 2027, after the election they're actually worried about. Meanwhile the same administration hired a 2020 election denier to oversee election integrity and is threatening to jail state officials who don't hand over voter data. Arizona's secretary of state put it plainly: that's not the posture an ally takes. That's what an adversary would do. He was talking about his own country's cybersecurity agency. theatlantic.com/national-sec…